Paper-winding machine



Aug 31 192% v ,F. M. FURTE PAPER WINDING nmcnmz Filed 001;. 22. 1923 Patented Aug. 31, 1926.

UNITED STATES FRANK M. FORTE, OF BOSTGN, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER-VIINDING MACHINE.

Application filed October 22, 1923.

machines are particularly useful for winding the rolls of paper used on the headrests of barbers chairs to protect the leather covering of the headrest from direct contact with the hair of the customer.

lVith such a machine, therefore, sim-- plicity and 'inexpensiveness of construction and operation are most essential, and the object of my invention generally is to provide a machine of thisclass which will combine these two important characteristics in a commercially practical machine. More specifically, my invention aims to provide for conveniently connecting the paper to the feed spindle so that said spindle may be smoothly and accurately wound to the desired diameter, the paper severed at the supply roll, the feed spindle removed from the machine and the roll of paper which has been wound thereon withdrawn from the spindle for use at the barbers chair, all with the maximum of convenience and rapidity.

The construction and operation of my machine is described and illustrated in the accompanying specification and drawings, throughout which like reference numerals are correspondingly applied, and the characteristic features of novelty are particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a paper winding machine in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is an end view thereof on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail view particularly illustrating the driving connection between the feed spindle drive shaft and the spindle, and

Fig. 4 is an end view of Fig. 3 as seen from the left of said figure.

I have indicated at 1 a pair of spaced end uprights which are rigidly connected to each other by longitudinal tie rods 2 and constitute the supports for a supply roll S and a superposed feed spindle 1, which are journaled therein in bearings 5 and 6 respectively. For convenience of handling, the core 3 f the supply roll is carried upon Serial No. 670,131.

two relatively short removable spindles, 7, 7, each of which has a grasping portion 8 disposed beyond the end uprights 1 by means of which it may be conveniently inserted into and withdrawn from the core 3 when renewing the paper supply. The paper or other material is laid as a continuous strip S about the core 3 of the supply roll, and said roll is mounted by means of spindles 7, 7 in the bearings for transfer to the feed spindle in desired lengths.

The feed spindle 4 is provided at one end beyond the adjacent frame 1 with an enlarged grasping portion 9, and between the end frames is longitudinally slotted, as in dicated at 10, to provide a continuous threading opening thru which the free end of the strip S may be led, whereby to attach the strip to said spindle. The slot 10 extends continuously to the opposite end of the spindle and at said end constitutes a keyway adapted to receive a driving key 11 on a drive shaft 12 journaled in the bearing 6 for the spindle at this end of'the machine. The shaft 12 is socketed to receive the spindle 41 and is held in said hearing by a clamp nut 13 threaded thereon. Between said nut andthe bearing 6, said shaft is provided with a gear 14 meshing with a driving gear 15 on the power shaft 16 of the machine.

The power shaft 16 is journaled in a bearing in the adjacent end frame and is provided with a hand crank 17 by means of which it may be rotated.

W'hen a sufficient length of paper is wound upon the feed spindle, the web may be severed by a knife blade 17 which is carried by a pair of spaced arms 18 lying closely adjacent the inner faces of the end frames 1 and hung from one of the tie rods 2 of the machine. By this construction the knife blade not only constantly lays upon the outermost layer of paper on thesupply roll, regardless of the diameter of-the roll of paper, but exerts a dragging tension on the paper as it is drawn therebeneath. The knife carrying arms 18, moreover, act as marginal guides to direct the paper accurately onto the service spindle. The pivoted knife, therefore, has constant bearing upon the paper so that the strip may be severed at any time by simplyv drawing it transversely of the knife bar. If desired, the inner end of the drive shaft 12 may be OFFICE.

flanged, as indicated at 19 to further assist in guiding and confining the strip as it feeds onto the feed spindle 4. i

hen a supply roll of thedesired diameter is drawn onto the spindle 4:, the paper is severed at the supply roll, the spindle withdrawn from its bearings 6, and the roll of paper slipped endwise off said spindle.

lVhile I have discussed my invention in its adaptation to the feeding of paper, it will be understood that this treatment is purely illustrative and in no way limiting. Similarly, while I have shown the best structural embodiment of my invention at present known to me, it will be understood that I reserve the right toresort to such modifications and variations as fall within the spirit and scope of my invention as dei'ined by the appended claims.

lVhat I therefore claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i

1. A strip feeding machine comprising a pair of spaced end uprights, a supply roll and a superposed feed spindle removably journaled between said uprights, said spindle having a longitudinally extending slot through which the free end of the strip may be threaded and said slot at one end constituting a keyway, a spindle drive shaft journaled in the adjacent frame upright and having a transversely extending driving key over which said keyway is insertible endwise for coupling the driving shaft and spindle for rotation in unison, the inner end of said shaft beyond the shaft bearing terminating in a strip guide flange rotatable with said shaft, and means whereby said drive shaft may be rotated.

2. A strip feeding machine, comprising a pair of spaced end uprights, a supply'roll and a feed spindle removably journaled between said uprights, a spindle drive shaft journaled in one of said uprights and operatively connected with one end of'said spindle, the inner end of said shaft beyond the bear-in therefor terminatln m a stri guide flange rotatable with said shaft.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

FRANK M. FORTE. 

